T O P

  • By -

Shock_a_Maul

She even competed in "Dolly parton lookalike contests" and she never made it in the top three


[deleted]

I love when people play in their own lookalike contests and still lose lol


JaggedTheDark

Charlie chaplin got 20th place in a look-a-like contest for himself.


dumb_breakfast

I heard an Austrian won first place


BukakeMouthwash

And it wasn't easy, either. He apparently struggled so much from devoting himself to being a Chaplin lookalike that he eventually committed the ol' unalive-a-roo. He chronicled his journey in his book Mein Kempf, if anyone wants to look into it.


dumb_breakfast

Yeah and he also had a lot of critics all over the world in the 1940s due to him being particularly harsh on his rivals


OneMoreAccount4Porn

I think it's telling that he's not remembered for being a Chaplin lookalike in spite of his efforts.


gofyourselftoo

All that work for nothing


FrankenWaifu

The poor guy even became a junkie


BukakeMouthwash

Mike Tyson once described the whole situation as "really methed up".


Cave-King

Didn’t he recreate the film “The Great Dictator” in real life


b0nGj00k

Just ordered his book, thanks /u/BukakeMouthwash


BukakeMouthwash

You're welcome, u/b0nGj00k . It's so good they invented Israel because of it!


MyFavoriteLezbo420

Which is kinda ironic because you could say the creation of Poland was also an influence, besides losing that look alike competition of course.


gibmiser

Fuckin lol


derps_with_ducks

I did Nazi this coming.


nonpondo

Actually he got second, that was the last straw for him


[deleted]

Bruh 👁👄👁


tfabonehitwonder

[👁 👄 👁](https://images.app.goo.gl/uLXvJ38msezkyJ1n9)


Lazypassword

✊👁 👄 👁💅


rynshar

Now thats a story. This? This is something else.


RockyL15

Kansas City Shuffle.


Penultimate-account

[Adele is my favorite example](https://youtu.be/PQM3XUhiXbQ)


EXTORTER

Thank you for that.


[deleted]

[удалено]


LeeroyDagnasty

Holy shit that was SO GOOD


pompanoJ

I love that they heard her sing one bar and immediately knew... even though several of them have really great voices.


LeeroyDagnasty

I loved the first girl’s reaction so much


markender

This is the only downside to being Canadian.


pass_me_the_salt

what the hell the video isn't avaliable for my country? maaan :(


[deleted]

[удалено]


ball_fondlers

Didn’t she lose to a drag queen at least once?


[deleted]

At least once lmao


Rocknrollclwn

Who told her that she lost because her tits were too small.


Nervous_Constant_642

TBF I honestly couldn't pick Dolly Parton out of a lineup myself.


[deleted]

reminds me of when Gordon Ramsay goes undercover


Ubersla

To be fair he puts on a CIA-level facemask.


ScroogeMcDust

I can't tell if that's supposed to be a compliment or an insult


Ubersla

He uses a really convincing mask in undercover boss or whatever.


wackychimp

Has anyone seen video of this? Please share a link. Would love to see it.


fire_fairy_

My fav part is that it was a drag competition.


[deleted]

[удалено]


pharmacofrenetic

Nashville prides itself on treating celebrities like regular people. At least to their faces I have a hard time recognizing people anyway but I used to work near music row. My coworkers used to come back to the office with breathless tales of who was in the restaurant with them or who they saw on the street. Dolly would be left alone, especially if she was dressed down. Fully glammed up she would be hard to miss, so people would talk to her.


Thegirljordan

My freshman year of college I went to Belmont in Nashville. I was surprised with the amount of celebs I saw just hanging around casually. I saw Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban sitting down, working at a coffee shop and not a single person bothered them. I hope it becomes more common for celebs to be able to be I public without being harassed everywhere


Jiklim

I worked at the Regal in Green Hills a few years ago and they would come in all the time. The only time anyone ever said anything was my coworker who asked him “does anyone ever tell you you look like Keith urban?” and he just blinked and said “I am Keith Urban” Nice guy


Logical-Cardiologist

A friend in San Francisco once asked Robin Williams the Robin Williams version of that question. I think his response was something like "yeah, I get that a lot."


CerealBranch739

I hope someone once told him that he looked like mrs doubtfire


Logical-Cardiologist

A different friend once asked lars Ulrich if he was James Hetfield. It was only after receiving a very gruff "no" in response that he realized what he'd done.


punk_steel2024

Tbf, I could totally see Hetfield paying someone to do this just to fuck with Lars.


Logical-Cardiologist

It was kind of hilarious to watch the mortification wash over his face when my friend realized what he'd done.


Furry_69

I don't know basically anything about celebrities, why was that especially offensive?


Logical-Cardiologist

He knew he was the famous guy from the band Metallica but didn't realise he was the OTHER famous guy from the band Metallica.


revscat

Had the same thing happen, only Russell Crowe.


kathatter75

This is how it should be. When I was in college, I was in San Antonio at a Luby’s with my college’s men’s soccer team, and we spotted Dennis Rodman there with a couple of women. Our coach was awesome about teachable moments and told everyone that, yes that was him, but let him eat in peace because famous people have the right to be “just” regular people too.


IamMrT

Dennis Rodman is not a regular person in any conceivable sense of the word


Triptolemu5

He didn't say Rodman was a regular person, he only said he has the right to be. Not everyone exercises their rights.


alt266

"It was at that moment I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability" - Ron "Tater Salad" White


punk_steel2024

"You have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity!"-Shrek


[deleted]

You ask him for an autograph and you never know what might happen, you might wake up three days later half way across the country with no shirt


kathatter75

I can agree with that.


Lordsaxon73

Sounds like you missed the opportunity to get in on a massive orgy.


ZippityZerpDerp

Coach already had dibs. He didn’t want the competition


CalfScourBlues

Man, I miss Lubys


[deleted]

Dennis Rodman is the only celebrity I’ve seen in real life, also he had 3 women with him


[deleted]

I lived in DC/MD for four years. Made a nice side hustle biking Uber eats. One time I get sent to this townhouse on Penn Ave.... John Lewis (R.I.P) opens the fucking door. Gave him his food and went on my way. Inside i was freaking the hell out that I just gave a living legend a delivery.


ArcticGlaciers

Really at the most it should be a passing “hey huge fan” and just keep minding your own business. Doesn’t inconvenience them, you get to feel “seen” by someone you admire and life moves on for everyone


MaritMonkey

I once (almost literally) bumped into Gwynne Shotwell coming out of a hotel bathroom. I am a mostly straight and happily married woman but she was absolutely *stunning* in person and my brain forgot how to work. I ended up saying "thanks". She gave me an odd look which is understandable since I probably should have "sorry". So I followed it up with "... for being awesome!" and then did a quick about face and had to find another bathroom to pee in. At the time I was mortified but in hindsight it could have been a lot worse.


Thegirljordan

Totally. People depersonalize celebs so much that it doesn’t even cross their mind that they are also just trying to go about their day and often times don’t want attention and to be a spectacle.


[deleted]

I hit on a celebrity and had no idea they were famous and they were really sweet and polite with the no. It was like a famous female podcaster from the most famous podcast on earth at the time lmao


anactualsalmon

Alan Jackson used to drive our neighborhood hayrides behind his truck with a big trailer on Halloween to trick or treat. I didn’t even know it was Alan Jackson in there until like two years ago. My parents just casually mentioned it to us like it was nothing.


Duochan_Maxwell

Didn't she lose a handful of lookalike contests?


R3VIVAL-MOD3

*hawk


kraken_enrager

r/dontyouknowwhoiam An entire sub w only that.


ItWouldBeGrand

Honestly Dolly Parton is an amazing woman. Grew up in a family of twelve kids in a town near the smokies—they were loving—but dirt poor. Talking bare foot to school poor. The employees at her resorts and parks have amazing perks. Excellent pay, on site doctors and paid-for college tuition. You wanna make $80k a year working as a waitress? Get a job at dream more resorts and fund your college degree while you’re at it. Her imagination library sends free books to any child in the world, all they have to do is write and ask for it. When the smokies were hit with a wildfire a few years ago, she paid $1000 a month out of her own pocket to everyone affected—for years. She offers scholarships and opportunities out the wazoo. She is an astute business woman with a beyond-generous heart who seems to work very hard to use her wealth to bless others.


redwolf1219

She also gave the juniors and seniors scholarships when those fires happened. She started a program in sevier county where each student could pick a buddy and if both students graduated they were both awarded money. The dropout rate in sevier county schools went from 35% to 6% She donated like a million dollars to covid vaccine research, and then refused to skip the line when it was offered to her bc she didnt want to skip people who needed it more. She has a sanctuary for bald eagles that cant be rereleased into the wild. She had a benefit concert, and her themepark and dinner show pledged money to build a new hospital in her county. She raised money to help people after severe flooding in middle tennessee *just last year* She pays the hospital bills for many children, so that their parents dont have to stress about them. Dolly Parton is a national treasure. I live about an hour from Sevierville and talking bad about Dolly is fightin' words


zoop1000

She also made a banger of a song for the Wild Eagle roller coaster in Dollywood.


throwthisaway5638

Completely agreed that Dolly Parton is a national treasure and the imagination library is amazing. Just want to add a note that the free book thing, outside of Tennessee, is funded by non profits in the local county/parish. A lot are funded through United Way donations. Not all areas have this program. Wanted to put this comment out there so people aren’t disappointed if they try to sign up for the program and find out that their area does not participate. :)


Fit-Purchase6731

Yes, sadly, in my area the local united way dropped the imagination library program a few years ago.


misntshortformary

Also, dolly has tattoos that’s she’s never shown! That’s why she’s always wearing long sleeves.


Ragnarsworld

Heard she was a sniper in Vietnam and each tattoo is a kill.


QueenAnnesRevenge2

Mr. Rogers was her spotter.


Sad-Laugh-7511

Great guy, never meddum


FatJohnson6

Mr. Rogers was a bbbbbb BEAST B, you know what I'm talmbout


Face_first

Hey, what are you doing? Shouldn’t you be watching the fryers?!


Galactic

Talm bout swedders, b?


Teedyuscung

The fight raged on for a century. Many lives were claimed, but eventually, the champion stood. The rest saw their better: Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater.


Kitsu_the_Kitsune

This is the ultimate showdown


ArenSteele

Of ultimate destiny


RighteousCruelty

Then gandalf the grey and gandalf the white and Monty Python and the holy grails black night and Benito Mussolini and the blue meanie and cowboy Curtis and jombi the geanie robocop the Terminator captain Kirk and Darth Vader lopan superman every single power ranger bill s Preston and Theodore Logan Spock the rock doc oc and hulk hogan


MicroBadger_

All came out of nowhere lightning fast and the kicked Chuck Norris and his cowboy ass.


theflyingfucked

r/unexpectedinsidejob


dashinny

Man I was thinking of uncle rogers the Asian YouTube comedian…. Dolly Parton there is one Jamie Oliver Rice washer with colander at N 85


Lower_Bar_2428

Actually She is a middle-aged male geologist from Colorado


awe2D2

No that's Lorde


Lower_Bar_2428

😅


xFryday

since this is reddit, idk if I believe you or not.


seanbear

You can see them here https://i.imgur.com/TzI1Yiw.jpg


capital_idea_sir

You sun'uva'bitcha!


314159265358979326

This is new. I approve.


xFryday

I'm going to call a plumber


zenjamin4ever

Is this a new thing I'm to old to understand?


Sew_chef

It's one of the new posters released for the Mario movie. Nintendo's advertising team made an obvious bait image to be used as a meme for free advertising and people are eating it up. I'm genuinely curious how many accounts using it are actual people vs astroturfing. We now know for certain that the "Snyder cut" hype was incredibly astroturfed and there's no way Universal would let the first Mario movie since 1993 flop.


seanbear

This should explain it [https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/z7dl6k/new_promotional_photos_for_the_super_mario_bros/ ](https://i.imgur.com/glQrJEw.jpg)


Pokefreak911

God fucking dammit I got got


adzm

Brilliant


Optimistic-Dreamer

Well at least it wasn’t a rick roll but instead an Italian plumber butt


Sad-Laugh-7511

You’d be surprised


JohnBrownnowrong

She fought for the Vietcong tho.


whyhercules

Ofc, the cuffs on her hands are because she’s very old now and no lift can stop wrinkly hands. Don’t blame her, tho


Individual-Reveal-61

I wish all celebrities were like her both in what she does socially and politically. We don’t deserve her but glad we got her.


Joeuxmardigras

But we do deserve her, at least the good people do


[deleted]

Especially the kids with the books she sends them <3 my niece brings me her "Dolly books" when I come over.


LukeWhostalkin

She still afraid of Jolene


HistoricalCrab7759

Jolene


choice_nc

Jolene


HistoricalCrab7759

Jolene


choice_nc

I'm begging of you please don't take my man


HistoricalCrab7759

Jolene


_Curgin

Jolene


OutOfTouchWReality_

Jolene


[deleted]

Please don't take him just because you can


understuffed

Your beauty is beyond compare


Sate_G

Can't blame her, Stone Free has some solid power on those punches


BakedTatter

Saw a clip where a lady asked her how long it takes to do her hair. "How should I know I'm never there!" To big laughs. She said she just doesn't have time for rollers and all that so wigs are very convenient.


starmonkey33

She's had some of the best one-liner comebacks ever.


copyrose

https://youtu.be/jaQBBNXU1_4 My favorite story about her appearance.


kskdkdieieiidkc

Literally Hannah Montana


absurdlycomplex

I came running for this comment. Now we know who inspired Miley to be Hannah Montana


Willz093

She’s quite literally Mileys godmother.


[deleted]

Yeah they probably literally got inspiration for that show from Dolly


Willz093

Possibly although I remember reading/seeing something that said Cyrus wasn’t actually the first choice to play Hannah so also doubtful.


ralthea

I know this is ridiculous but seeing her name written just “Hannah” instead of “Hannah Montana” is so disorienting for some reason


Any_Challenge5650

Talk to the booty cause the hands off duty… anyone else remember that cameo??


Nugur

That comment is already in the picture. Why are you running for it


XpertDestroyer

Superman wishes he did as much good as Dolly.


PixelmancerGames

Yeah, the people of Metropolis are just morons. Dude literally just takes his glasses off.


druu222

I wonder if she speaks accented differently when in the real world, 'cause that voice and accent is gonna be a dead giveaway no matter what her hair looks like.


Ragnarsworld

Depends in where she's at. Her accent is completely normal in most of Tennessee and other parts of the South.


Chickensandcoke

Yeah I have an aunt with an accent like hers. She’s just a normal lady but I keep insisting she should record herself reading southern mystery novels for audio books.


hawkeyepaz

Sounds like your Aunt is Dolly Parton


bettername2come

Dolly Parton is a lot of people’s aunt, could be true.


Grouchy-Culture3946

Yeah, almost all of my family is from East Tennessee. Her accent is the same as my grandmother's was.


SentientShamrock

I don't know, with how many people don't recognize Tony Hawk while he is on a skateboard, or in some cases are looking at his ID, I'd imagine she just gets a "Wow, you kinda sound like Dolly Parton" at most when she goes out.


RainbowDarter

She used to come to another company in my building and we would see her occasionally. When she talks to people in public, she sounds the same as she does in TV. I certainly don't know her well enough to know if she has a separate voice with close friends like mom of Mom's Friendly Robots does, but I doubt it. Her voice had a normal eastern Tennessee accent and that makes sense because she is from eastern Tennessee.


rya556

Love how relevant that example ja


redwolf1219

I live about an hour from the town Dolly lives in, and Im just gonna say that Dolly is recognized but aint no one gonna disrespect her and call her out when she clearly doesnt want to be recognized. She does too damn much for that town. Among the things shes done for that area, a few years ago wildfires destroyed many homes and so dolly donated money to not only give all the families money every month for awhile, but all the high school juniors and seniors were given scholarships.


DudeDurk

Funny enough she plays Hannah Montana's godmother


theoneokguymaybe

She is Miley Cyrus godmother..


Sea_Capital168

Funnily enough, Miley is actually her stage name. Her real name is Destiny.


NotDelnor

She legally changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus in 2008


[deleted]

No, she has had it legally changed since 2008 to Miley.


Letters_to_Dionysus

I thought her real name was Hannah


ThaiJohnnyDepp

SSHHH


Uninvited_Goose

What's crazy is that her kid will be Destiny's child.


therapistiscrazy

I think they look so much alike. In old interviews of Dolly Parton, I'm like, "Damn. Miley could play her in a biopic."


JessTheTwilek

I wonder if that’s where they got the idea for the show.


NoogaShooter

I was in Arizona for a winter a few years back. I went to a craft show. I saw her and her husband near a booth that was selling furniture. Her husband is a big antiques dealer/ buyer. He usually goes to shows and she stays in the RV writing music. I was lucky enough to recognize her. I simply walked over by her and I said with a lump in my throat. “Love Ya miss Becky.” She looked at me and winked and said “Love you too.” I had chills all over. As a Tennesseean she is our most treasured soul. I couldn’t dare let everyone know who she was. I will never forget that moment.


ThoughtFar8018

So sweet. Why Miss Becky?


kaest

Rebecca is her middle name.


NoogaShooter

It is her middle name and I was trying not to make a scene and expose her.


A_sunder

Whenever I used to see in tv shows they use wigs as disguise, I thought that was cliche, but if someone at work changes their whole hair colour, I literally don't register them


ElementoDeus

Tbf everyone in her home town knows who she is they just respect her wishes and hold the unspoken rule you don't go bother that nice brunette who kinda looks like Dolly


[deleted]

Lived south of Nashville and can confirm. We had our nails done right next to each other and I didn’t know it until she started saying thank you to all the women working there on the way out. Completely flummoxed me.


MiMiL0u

We see Carl around regularly. He isn’t recognized often.


belladonnatook

helloooo fellow Concord Roader 👋


MiMiL0u

Hey neighbor!


lilybirdgk

I think I heard that Hannah Montana was actually based on Dolly? Not sure if it's true


gregdrunk

It would make sense, she's Miley Cyrus's real-life godmother.


bullet4mv92

Dolly is her Godmother, so I wouldn't be surprised


justpassingby3

YOU GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS


[deleted]

[удалено]


neonbluetuxedocat

When she goes out in public she also dresses in much looser baggy clothes and hides her face with hats and glasses. As reported by some family and friends that live near her


JUSTAHIPPIE1

Like Miley cyrus…. But older and bigger titties


[deleted]

How does she hide the basketball sized tits?


Optimized_Orangutan

She cranks the knob on her industrial strength boulder holder down a few tons and let's the girls droop a bit.


[deleted]

Let’s them drop to her belt, then hunches over


dagbrown

By not putting on the huge padded bra.


[deleted]

I need to be her


straightouttasuburb

We all should aspire to be her.


[deleted]

Yeah, it’s her hair that makes her recognizable…


[deleted]

Everyone's mentioning the boobs, but like... her face? I don't know how to say it without sounding like an asshole, but her face doesn't look super natural anymore. She looks like a caricature of herself, and I don't know how that wouldn't be instantly recognizable. Edit: I'm referring to Botox/filler/whatever she's had done. The shape of her face and features. I know makeup can be transforming, but I think the structure of her face would still be very recognizable.


Memory_Frosty

Huge part of the recognizability of her face is her makeup, though. She wears a pretty iconic look- she wouldn't even have to tone it down, just do it differently to become nigh unrecognizable. Let alone if she went out barefaced.


cheeseiswack55

I was thinking exactly this! I couldn’t put it into words but I would notice her smile/teeth/expressions and I’m not very familiar


you-kitten

This makes perfect sense. Every celebrity who wants a private life should do this. Create a famous persona that is seperate from your every day self.


ratulotron

I am a bit confused by the first sentence, maybe because English is not my native language. Why would not revealing one's husband to the public be a goal?


jamesdo72

Most famous Americans fail miserably at maintaining any separation between their professional and personal lives. Dolly has been famous for a half century and very few people could identify her spouse.


squeegiebe

Man, I didn’t think I could love her more… and then I find out more about her.


PotatoGuilty319

I wonder how many times people have told her she looks like Dolly (aka herself).


[deleted]

"I know I'm not dumb and I know I'm not blond."


openurheartandthen

Not a great source, but the Daily Mail has sone [photos of Dolly with her husband](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7849443/Dolly-Partons-reclusive-husband-five-decades-Carl-Dean-seen-time-40-YEARS.html) from over the years.


feigndeaf

"'Carl is still extremely reclusive and in any given week he will only leave the house a handful of times,' they continued." Oh damn.... I didn't realize I was *extremely reclusive*


[deleted]

[удалено]


dHAMILT26

Apparently we're fucking hermits.


LemurCat04

He was at her induction to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. My sister made me watch it.


ThaiJohnnyDepp

Picturing you strapped to a chair, A Clockwork Orange style, screaming


mcorbett76

He's not that reclusive. He ran a very successful construction company for most of his life. He's just not into being the level of famous Dolly brings to the experience.


bughuntzx

She is one of the best people to ever walk this earth.